The international small farmers movement Via Campesina also lamented the absence of Group of Eight leaders, saying in a statement: "This is a major concern, and we call upon the G8 governments (to) take up your responsibility, your economic and political strength gives you a major responsibility on this issue
They describe the role of international organizations like the Latin American Coordinator of Rural Organizations and La Via Campesina, and regional and national movements, in opposition to neoliberal globalization.
With the continued efforts of organizations such as La Via Campesina and individuals such as Renada and Nigel, some of the devastating impacts of large-scale development projects will hopefully be avoided in the Amazon region.
He was among the thousands who protested in Seattle against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1999, and it was there that he came face to face with what he calls the "march of the farmers' movement" in the form of arguably the world's largest network of independent organisations, La Via Campesina, which represents around 150 million farm workers and smallholders across the globe.
Saturday's action started with a pro-family farmer organization called La Via Campesina, which decried subsidies and other supports in rich countries for big-business agriculture and demanded a return to small-scale farming to restore stability to food prices and supplies.
Women of Via Campesina celebrated March 8, International Women's Day, by destroying a laboratory and nursery of cloned pines of the Aracruz corporation in protest against encroaching tree plantations.
When the member organizations of Via Campesina, a international small farmers' federation, gathered in Dijon, France in January 2008, they declared that "all bilateral and bi-regional free trade agreements and Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) lead to the plundering of natural resources and only serve transnational companies at the expense of all the world's peoples and environment.
